Python advocacy in scientific computation

[Robert Kern]

Brian Blais wrote:
> here, I've found python to be good, but not great.  matplotlib (pylab) is a really 
> great thing, but is not as straightforward as plotting in Matlab.  Either, you have a 
> window which locks the process until you close it, or you do interactive mode, but 
> the window results disappear if any other window is put on top (like your shell), and 
> has to be manually redrawn.  This makes it far less convenient to deal with in 
> interactive mode.

All I can say is that I've never seen anything like that behavior. Are you tried
using ipython in pylab mode?

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